ABSTRACT
This volume is a new contribution to the dynamic scholarly discussion of the control and regulation of psychoactive substances in culture and society. Offering new critical reflections on the reasons prohibitions have historically arisen, the book analyses "prohibitions" as ambivalent and tenuous interactions between the users of psychoactive substances and regulators of their use. This original collection of essays engages with contemporary debates concerning addiction, intoxication and drug regulation, and will be of interest to scholars in the arts, humanities and social sciences interested in narratives of prohibition and their social and cultural meanings.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|18 pages
From Universal Relaxant to Oriental Vice
Race and French Perceptions of Opium Use in the Moment of Global Control
chapter 3|20 pages
A Medicine for the Soul
Morphine and Prohibition in the French Cultural Imagination, 1870–1940
chapter 4|22 pages
“To Save the Mexican Race from Degeneration”
The Influence of American Protestant Groups on Temperance and Prohibition in Mexico, 1916–1933
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chapter 6|22 pages
The Dialectics of Dope
Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra, the Myth of Marijuana, and Mexico’s State Drug Monopoly
chapter 7|17 pages
Reassessing the “Drug-Free Country”
Drug Abuse, the Soviet State, and Contemporary Russian Drug Policy
chapter 9|20 pages
Drug Prohibition and the End of Human Rights
Race, “Evil,” and the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961
chapter 12|20 pages
From Harm to Psychoactivity
The Clarity of Morality in the 2016 Psychoactive Substances Act
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chapter 13|12 pages
Honor’d in the Breach
Contravention and Consensus in the History of Substance Prohibition
